An Efficient Approach for Solving Mesh Optimization Problems Using Newton’s Method

Table 6

Surface mesh quality statistics of cow mesh (Figure 6(b)).

Surface element quality	Initial	Optimized (Newton)	Optimized (NLCG)	Optimized (steepest descent)
1.0–1.5	2,143	2,930	2,922	2,926
1.5–2.0	628	146	144	150
2.0–3.0	216	54	53	51
3.0–4.0	79	9	10	12
4.0–5.0	54	3	3	2
5.0–7.5	24	11	9	10
7.5–10.0	6	4	6	6
10.0–15.0	6	1	0	0
>15.0	2	0	1	1